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For me, the drive is storytelling. To be a part of an art that tells a story and to be a catalyst, a color in that, is very exciting.
Alden Ehrenreich
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Alden Ehrenreich
Age: 35
Born: 1989
Born: November 22
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Alden Caleb Ehrenreich
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I had four years of auditions, and nothing happened, until Francis Ford Coppola took a shot on me ['Tetro' in 2009]. I hadn't done a film, and suddenly I was the lead.
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Warren [Beatty] did a very cool thing, where he directs in character.
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You get bummed out, and then you go, Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself. That kind of helps.
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I had an audition process that went on for a long time, and I got to spend a lot of time with the guys who are directing the film. Getting to be around them and being around the world a little bit has been the main experience so far. I did my audition on the Millennium Falcon for one of my screen tests, which was pretty cool.
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That's something that Francis [Ford Coppola] would always say. I remember when I was doing Tetro, he said, Stay innocent. I'm 69 years old, and I'm still innocent.
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When Tetro came out, I met with Warren Beatty for the first time. I had, like, a four-and-a-half-hour lunch with him, and then over the next five years continued to meet with him and go to his house.
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Acting-wise, I've had all these experiences. Yet when I look at certain people whose careers I admire, they've gotten to play so many different characters. So it's just that - getting to have more of these singular little adventures where you get to be a part of a completely different world.
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I honesty feel that each film has its own particular challenges.
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But even a kid, directing was something that I did. I made short films in school. I feel like I've been in the best film school in the world.
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I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted.
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I'm glad to be an actor to be employed by people who are now 12, probably. I look forward to that.
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I had the opportunity to learn more about what life is like for a soldier [in The Yellow Birds].
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The biggest challenge to being an actor is when you're not working, just being unemployed, the downtime and not having anything to do.
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I want to make movies that people see. I really think that movies are the most popular form of story telling ever and have such a huge impact on culture when they do.
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The last three movies I've done, I played a cowboy, then I played a soldier, and now I play Han Solo. So the little kid in me is having a real joyride.
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It feels like you're being invited into a kind of community [working with the Coen brothers].
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For me, each one of those experiences stands on its own. The first one was with Steven Spielberg, who helped me to get an agent and vouch for me, and that gave me the confidence to continue.
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So many times you can't get a foot in the door unless you're already in the room.
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